Jim Silver: 8 books

Poverty in Canada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educational...

For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada’s neoliberal...

Karma Sucks is the Second Episode of The Commandment television series. Savannah, GA reels under a new wave of techno-crime. 'Hit & Run' attacks are sweeping the country; victims are targeted at random, savagely beaten and left for dead. The twist: the perp records the assault as a first-person...

1962, Leesville, Louisiana. Four white deputies come across an elderly black couple in a small diner. The couple are local champions of the civil rights movement. It is no chance encounter. Words are exchanged, their deadly intent clear, but they can't stop the truth from being confirmed before...

The Commandment is the pilot to an original dramatic television series, and is presented as a complete screenplay. The story is set in Savannah, Georgia, the Bible belt South. Bob Lee St.John, an accused pedophile serial killer, is on trial. Suspected of three killings, all five year-old boys, forensic...

Brianne DeGarmo is an abused wife caught up in an illicit affair with Nick Mathis, a high-powered lawyer. Her husband, Daryl, is a self-made millionaire who owns a munitions factory and a hair-trigger temper. One day there's a very big boom. Who did it? Hard to tell when the intended target's...

New Mexico...Facility #6…that’s the entire name…one of dozens of unknown facilities scattered across the White Sands desert. Just a solitary sign on an old telephone pole out on the highway, not enough to reveal anything about the place. 6,317 miles across the Atlantic; a near-identical facility,...

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